Gardens: Ground work After a lifetime spent on work that vanished without trace, set- designer and actress Maggy Howarth decided to turn her attentions to creating a lasting legacy. Peter Parker pieces together the strands of her mosaics

From: The Independent - London | Date: April 9, 2000| Author: Peter Parker | Copyright information

Maggy Howarth says of her first pebble mosaic: "It reminds me of where it all started." Built for fun at her home, a former smallholding on a hill above the Lune Valley in Lancashire, it is a depiction of the sun in black and white stones. A simple, circular design, it has been superseded by more ambitious work, but she is fond of this prototype which predates the business she set up over a decade ago.

For many years, Maggy and her husband, Boris, travelled with a small theatre compan...

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